NEW YORK It is a matter of record! The spate of seething, youth-inspired Middle East uprisings that are toppling governments, reshaping the geopolitical landscape and roiling world markets blindsided the worlds intelligence community. Not the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff or National Security Council saw it coming. Mossad and MI5 missed it! None of the mainstream medias star-studded stable of scholars, experts and think-tank policy wonks were thinking ahead.
But what was breaking news to them was yesterdays news for Trends Journal readers. In the summer 2010 issue, we wrote:
Whats happening in Greece will spread worldwide as economies decline. There are no organizations behind this response, its a public response. This is a 21st century rendition of Workers of the World unite’ Initially the strikes, riots and protests by unions, student groups, the unemployed, pensioners, and the outraged were sloughed off as predictable (but short-lived and ineffectual) responses that would either peter out on their own or be stomped down by the police The unofficial reality was that, as Gerald Celente has repeatedly warned: When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.
As we wrote before Tunisia and Egypt erupted, the outbreaks would go global and the reasons behind the unrest would be more about bread and butter issues than politics. As economies decline, unemployment rises, taxes are raised and services cut while those at the top get richer and most everyone else gets poorer revolutions will continue to spread.
But thats not the way its being represented by the same people who didnt see it coming. The media, pundits and politicians have misrepresented the historic geopolitical events that have occupied the news since the onset of the New Year. Virtually overnight, the revolutions have been glorified as courageous fights for freedom and liberty by democracy-hungry-masses.
But it is not hunger for democracy that drives them. Democracy, autocracy, theocracy, monarchy right, center, left it is mostly a gut issuean empty gut issue. When the money stops flowing down to the man in the street, the blood starts flowing in the streets. Its a simple equation. A few at the top have too much, and too many others have too little.
Whats Next In response to the current Middle East uprisings, gold has broken above $1400 an ounce and Brent Crude climbed to $111 a barrel. There is no end in sight to market volatility. As the violence escalates and expands, the fallout will be felt around the world.
From the onset of the financial crisis that began in August 2007, and through the ensuing Panic of 08, Washington, the Federal Reserve and central banks have managed to forestall a Great Depression-grade meltdown by way of a variety of multi-trillion dollar rescue packages, bailouts and stimulus programs. For three years the programs were able to induce an illusory and superficial recovery that, barring a major external geopolitical jolt, might have continued to run its course until the inevitable denouement. – bY Trends Journal Publisher, Gerald Celente
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